Supports of articles such as furniture and the like



March 18, 1930.

SUPPORTS OF ARTICLES SUCH AS FURNITURE AND THE LIKE Filed March 30, 1928FRITZ XNVENTGR;

F. MENG 1,7505678 Patented Mar. 18, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEFRITZ MENG, OF BERN, SWITZERLAND Application filed March 30, 1928,Serial No.

This invention relates to the supports of articles, such as furnitureand the-like, and is particularly applicable to benches, such as areused in rows as seats in tents, pavilions 6 and other temporaryaccommodation for galas and performances, and such as are placed out onthe roads and streets on the occasion of processions. In order better toile such benches one on another when not 1n use they have been providedwith folding supports. Heretofore they were all the same length, and thebenches were of a predetermined invariable height depending on thelength of their supports, so that the persons using them were seated atthe same height in all the rows.

This invention has for its main object to obviate this defect and toenable the height of the seats to be adjusted.

According to the present invention, a support of an article, such as abench, comprises two struts which slant one relatively to the other andhave their lower ends abutting one another.

Three embodiments of the invention are diagrammatically illustrated byway of example in the accompanying drawing, where- 1n Figure 1 is a sideelevation showing a bench, partly broken away, having one form ofsupport according to the invention,

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view thereof,

Figures 3 and 4 show details thereof on an enlarged scale, and

Figure 5 is a cross-section, also enlarged taken on the line VV inFigure 1;

Figures 6 and 7 are elevations of two other forms of support accordingto the invention.

Figure 7 is a detailed view on an enlarged scale showing the means usedto prevent collapse of the seat shown in Figure 6.

Referring to Figures 1 to 5, the bench comprises a seat a having belowat each side a flange constituting a reinforcement. The

supports comprise each two struts c, 61? connected together by a hinge eto form a V. The strut 0 is attached by a pivot pin Z) to the saidflanges. The free end f of the strut d is bevelled and can be placedagainst various stops g g 9 so that the slant of the 266,019, and inSwitzerland April 12, 1927.

struts in relation to the seat a and with it the height of the bench canbe adjusted. The struts 0 and d form with the seat a a triangle havingthe hinge e at its lowest angle resting on the ground.

In order that the struts d shall not leave the stops when a person risesfrom the seat, an angle iron 2' may be provided which can be insertedinto a staple in of flat iron.

For transport and storage in piles, the struts d are removed from thestops, the hinge e is straightened out, and the struts 0 and d are laidflat between the flanges against the seat and the stops. The collapsedbenches can be readily piled one on another with the seats downwards. Ifdesired, the free ends of the struts d may carry spring-pressed latchesfor engaging in recesses in the flanges.

In the embodiment shown in Figure 6 the struts 0 and d are pivotallyconnected together by a hinge e to form a V. The strut e is pivoted tothe flanges of the seat a, and the strut d is ivoted to slides s whichcan be fixed below the seat a at several places by any convenient means,such as bolts, not shown, in order to vary the height of the bench. Fortransport or storage the slides s are so shifted that the struts 0 and dof each support lie flat under the seat.

The blocking device comprises the two struts 0 and d of which the one ais directly joined to the reenforcing bar of the seat plate, while theother (i is provided at its upper end with a slide 8 movable in a groove1" of the reenforcing bar. The slide 8 has an orifice t and thereenforcing bar has also a number of orifices u, the purpose of which isto receive a pin '0 in different positions and thus to be able to varythe vertical plane of the struts.

In the examples described above the sup ports can be place-d at variousheights. They may, however, be so constructed that the struts are notadjustable.

It is to be understood that the supports may be employed also for tablesand other articles of furniture.

I claim 1. Supports, for an article, each thereof"- comprising twostruts that slant downwardly towards each other, and pivotally connectedat their lower ends against one another at an angle which is adjustable,one of the struts being pivotally connected at its upper end to thearticle being supported, and means whereby the free end of the otherstrut is adjustable along the article to be supported for the purpose ofadjusting its elevation.

2. An article of furniture comprising in combination a part to besupported, supports therefor each thereof comprising two strutspivotally connected together at their lower ends the upper end of one ofwhich struts is pivoted to said part to be supported, and a plurality ofstops on said part against any of which the upperend of the other strutcan bear and hold the struts in the form of a V.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

FRITZ MENG.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1,750,678. Granted March 18, 1930, to

FRITZ MENG.

It. is hereby certified that error appears in the above numbered patentrequiring correction as follows: In the heading to the printedstatement, line 4, date of filing foreign application, for "April 12,1927" read "April 2, 1927"; and that the said Letters Patent should beread with this correction therein that the same may conform to therecord of the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 20th day of May, A. I). 1930.

M. J. Moore, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents.

